In the past week (from June 22 to June 28), the overall cryptocurrency market maintained a pattern of high-level fluctuations, with Bitcoin under pressure and consolidating around $60,000, and market sentiment leaning towards caution. Although mainstream coins experienced a brief lull, structural opportunities have quietly emerged — the DeFi sector was the first to awaken from its silence, with several leading protocol tokens showing significant independent trends this week. According to data from the Huobi HTX platform, blue-chip assets such as AAVE, DYDX, and JTO have strengthened in turns; the AI sector's heat continues, with MANTA and BEAT maintaining strength; at the same time, the Solana ecosystem has become active again, with SOL becoming one of the best-performing large-cap assets this week.

DeFi sector: protocol value returning, blue-chip leaders collectively re-evaluated

This week, the most eye-catching performance was in the DeFi sector. Driven by the continuous accumulation of on-chain liquidity and steady growth in protocol revenue, the DeFi sector has welcomed a round of value recovery, with several core targets experiencing considerable weekly gains.

AAVE (Aave Protocol): Weekly gain of 31%, leading among large-cap DeFi assets. As the absolute leader in decentralized lending protocols, Aave's Total Value Locked (TVL) has long ranked at the forefront of the industry. Notably, the token buyback plan initiated by the protocol (with a weekly buyback scale of approximately $1 million) continues to release positive signals, and the market's logic for re-evaluating Aave's mid- to long-term value is becoming increasingly clear.

GWEI (ETHGas): This week it rose by 63%. As a DeFi protocol focused on Ethereum's ecological infrastructure layer, GWEI benefits from the recovery in Ethereum network activity and the growing demand for on-chain interactions, bringing direct traffic and fee capture capabilities.

DYDX (dYdX): A benchmark project in the on-chain perpetual contracts sector, up 26% this week. With the gradual recovery of on-chain derivatives trading demand, DYDX continues to attract institutional-level users with its mature order book model and deep liquidity.

XPL (Plasma): Up 26%. As an emerging protocol target in the DeFi ecosystem, Plasma is a blockchain compatible with Layer 1 EVM, built for high-capacity, low-cost global stablecoin payments.

JTO (Jito): Weekly gain of 23%, closely related to the overall recovery of the Solana ecosystem. JTO, as a liquidity staking protocol under the Solana ecosystem, benefits from the significant warming of SOL on-chain activities—especially with this week's resurgence of Solana's on-chain Meme ecosystem, driving the dual expansion of staking demand and on-chain capital liquidity.

AI sector and Solana ecosystem continue to heat up, with SOL leading mainstream assets

AI remains one of the most sustainable hot sectors in this market round. With the continuous evolution of segmented directions like AI Agent, decentralized computing power, AI infrastructure, etc., the integration of AI and Web3 is expected to be one of the key focal points in the second half of the year.

MANTA (Manta Network): Weekly gain of 93%. MANTA continues to attract the attention of technology-driven funds with its dual positioning of modular Layer2 and AI computing infrastructure. This week, intensive releases related to the MANTA ecosystem have continued, advancing integration work with AI computing power protocols, greatly enhancing narrative heat.

BEAT (Audiera): Up 70% this week. Audiera has created a native participatory economic model for agents on the BNB chain: humans and autonomous AI agents participating equally.

Meanwhile, the Solana ecosystem also performed actively this week. SOL (Solana) rose by 2% this week, performing well among mainstream large-cap assets. Over the past year, Solana has continued to attract a large number of users and funds due to its high performance, low fees, and mature developer ecosystem. Recently, the trading heat of Solana's on-chain Meme has significantly rebounded, with the number of new project launches and on-chain activity continuing to grow. As the core asset of the ecosystem, SOL is expected to continue benefiting from the overall prosperity of the ecosystem.

Huobi HTX's quality asset matrix, continuously capturing Alpha for users in the sector

Market hotspots continuously rotate, but quality assets remain the core focus of long-term funds. As a global leading digital asset trading platform, Huobi HTX continues to pay attention to the development trends in popular sectors such as AI, DeFi, Layer 1, BTCFi, and Meme, actively selecting high-quality projects with long-term growth potential to provide global users with richer and more diverse investment options. In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to track market dynamics, continuously improve the asset ecosystem, help users capture market hotspots in real-time, grasp structural investment opportunities in the cryptocurrency industry, and share the long-term value of Web3 innovation with global users.

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